244 ◾ Design Science Research Methods and Patterns
Usage Example(s)
1. You have designed a motor vehicle. It is not possible to fully understand or
predict the behavior of the vehicle under varying driving conditions. You sim-
ulate the motor vehicle to understand and predict the behavior of the vehicle
under a variety of driving conditions that mimic actual driving conditions.
2. You want to design the layout of a bank in terms of the number of tellers,
dimensions of the bank, and so on. You simulate the layout using dierent
abstract components that mimic actual components relevant to the design.
You implement the simulation on a computer and observe the lengths of lines
that will be formed in front of the tellers using a variety of dist ...